the social sphere security tax and the other taxes. he made $60 million last year. >> let's talk about apple. apple may face first profit drop in decades as a the iphone slows down. >> verizon came out this morning is stated that they had a blowout sale with the iphone 5. this is actually bad bills because this is a very expensive phone to manufacture. the ipad, and the ipad mini. some of their sales have when down. this is not a make or break for them. >> wenner. existing home sales fall, but prices climbed for the 10th straight month. the sales were up and this is lovely. the average home is up by 11 1/2%. as the prices go up more people are putting their inventory out there. i believe that home sales will continue to do well. this is as long as the interest rates remain low. >> we have the e-mail from patrick. he states that he would like to know if he should consider buying amazon before earnings are released? >> yes. i think that this is the craziest accompany the juvenile. i think they're invading apple's ecosystem. they have don